Sentence examples for of parliaments of from inspiring English sources

Some obvious points – that the Union of Crowns of 1603 saw the Scots king taking over England, and that the Union of Parliaments of 1707 was motivated from the Scottish side by keen self-interest – were acknowledged, but downplayed.

Women now make up an all-time high of 17% of parliamentarians worldwide, according to a survey of 189 national parliaments by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the international organization of parliaments of sovereign states that was established in 1889.

There is not a single member of parliament of non-white immigrant origin representing mainland France.

I saw a picture of his on the wires of the opening of Parliament, of one of the cavalry guards before the event started.

He accused members of Parliament of plotting to remove him and using the militias for their political goals.

Hay, according to Ms Purkiss, was responsible for warning five members of Parliament of their impending arrest.

After Charlie Hebdo, the French prime minister Manuel Valls spoke in front of parliament of a country "at war".

Today, Bild, Germany's largest tabloid, accused four more members of Parliament of similar abuse of frequent-flier miles, acting on information it obtained from an unnamed source.

In 2003, Mr. Mortazavi was accused by members of Parliament of covering up the death of a Canadian photographer, Zahra Kazemi, while she was in an Iranian jail.

But she adopted loftier rhetoric Wednesday, reminding members of Parliament of the work that an earlier political generation had done to unite Europe after a century of bloodshed.

Magistrates in the early 1990s issued 619 requests to lift immunity on members of parliament, of whom 319 were investigated for corruption.